Improvement in presses for cider



H. KRUMSIBK.

Press for Cider, 8w.

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THE GRAPHIC C0.PHO O LlTH.39&4-l PARK PLACE, N.Y

UNITED STATES 2 FFIC.

IMPROVEMENT IN PRESSES FOR CIDER, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 163,085, dated May 11,1875; application filed October 31, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY KRUMSICK, of Nashville, Washington county,Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Press, of which the followingis a specification Figure 1 represents a vertical longitudinal sectionof my improved press on the line 0 c, Fig. 2; and Fig. 2 is a horizontalsection of the same on the line a: m, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Elastic blocks have been hitherto interposed between the screw andfollower of a press, for the purpose of supplementing the pressure ofthe screw by expansion of the blocks but they have been so arranged thatthere was lack of steadiness and directness of pressure; hence increaseof friction and aconsequent loss of power, and liability of breaking thethread in operating the screw to force the follower down.

To remedy this and other defects of the former plan, I arrange elasticblocks between two parallel cross-bars of the press-frame, one of whichis fixed, and the other ertically adjustable, its ends being tenoned andfitted in elongated mortisesin the uprights of the frame, as hereinafterdescribed.

In the drawing, A represents the frame of an y wine, cider, tobacco, orother press; B, the follower; O, the screw, working in the socket D, thelateral cross-bar, in which of the same;

the upper screw end acts, and which slides by means of narrower endpieces a in grooves b of the side beams of frame A. Between the slidingcross-bar D and the strong stationary cross-bar D, at the top of frameA, are interposed powerful rubber, car, or other springs E, which getdepressed by the turning of the screw and lowering of the follower onthe material to be pressed, so that they keep up the pressure thereonafter the screw has been turned sufficiently.

By the arrangement above described the blocks or springsE are heldsecurelyin place, and require no attention in the operation of thepress. The bar D is also prevented turning or changing its position,except Vertically, and the action on the head of the screw is equableand uniform, so that the best or full effect is obtained from the forceapplied in turning it.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent In a press, the arrangement of the springs E, fixedand movable cross-bars D D, and the uprights A A, having elongatedmortises b b, all as shown and describet HENRY KRUMSIOK. Witnesses:

FRIEDRICH KORF, CHRISTIAN ScHRo'rH.

